Meanwhile, actual Ghibli creation Princess Mononoke is enjoying robust returns from its current big-screen revival.

OpenAI released a new image generator this week, and AI-generated Studio Ghibli slop is now all over the internet. In the livestream demo of the native image generation in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAI took a selfie and asked the new generator to turn it into an anime frame.

The Ghibli-gate controversy is just the latest in a series of lawsuits filed by news organizations, authors, and musicians who claim their work was used to train AI models without permission.